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echo: win95
to: August Abolins
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2011-08-03 06:02:04
subject: MS patent.. to allow spying on you

Hello, August.

Tuesday August 02 2011 at 23:02, you wrote to me:

 AA> It saddens me how complacent the general public is becoming about
 AA> privacy and continue to support products that don't respect the
 AA> privacy of a conversation.  But I suppose that as long as most people
 AA> use Skype for generic information, what does it matter. OMG, now *I'm*
 AA> supporting complacency!  :(

Unfortunately, in the eyes of the US government and others, there is no
such thing as "generic" information as they consider anything to
be suspicious.  On the dangerous edge of political discussion, I will say
in the US I am considered a terrorist because I am a conservative and I am
also an honorably discharged veteran of our armed forces so any information
they try to glean from me will automatically be considered good, I guess.

Any real expectation of privacy when you are using anything involving the
Internet is a false hope but there should be a limit to which our
respective governments spy on us.

I guess we'd better move this conversation to netmail if we're going to
discuss this anymore as we've now strayed way off-topic in here. :)
Later,
Sean

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